Lot of worrying stuff in here. Edtech needs to take surveillance tech more seriously, because the two are increasingly simultaneous.

Love the paper tickets, and this makes me sad.

Russia is currently demonstrating just how powerful and dangerous nuclear weapons are—and, unfortunately, how complicated disarmament is.

Unsurprising but disappointing.

Good read on the emptiness of recent Musk bluster.

Good reporting on a scary but important subject. I’ve been collecting Gab blog posts to eventually study some of this Christian nationalism.

Very interesting article on how Tolkien can inspire far right thinking.

This is juvenile enough that I feel guilty finding it funny, but it’s a good demonstration of the problems with this backlash against content moderation.

Ooof. AI-generated art is fun, but it comes at a price, and we can’t afford to forget it.

This is a good response to Musk’s complaining about bots.

Lots to love in this article, but I especially appreciate the point that God and Creation resist binaries.

Great movie, great example of the difficulty of content moderation.

I had heard about this kind of software at a conference last year, but reading about it just makes it scarier.

What a dumb allegation. Just makes me want to vote for Wu even more.

My optimism about internet culture has been waning for several years, but I still appreciate a deep-dive into how rich and complex a given meme can be.

This article provides good examples of how the efficacy and efficiency of a given technology is often less important than deeper questions of reliance and roles.

I knew my distrust of spellcheck would be validated one day! Seriously, though, this is bad news.

I missed the vertical integration aspect of this in earlier reporting I’ve read. It makes this story even worse.

We need to do more work to divorce free speech from content moderation. The world without content moderation would be a much worse world, and we don’t want to live in it. Sure, social media platforms are too powerful, but this is not the answer.

This is a gross idea for a TV show, and I’m glad people are pushing back against it.

This isn’t the first article I’ve read comparing Q to an ARG, but I may still send it to my students next semester. I’m also interested in the book this comes from…

I am very much here for Matt Potts criticizing Hogwarts for not embracing the humanities and the importance of the humanities.

Trump’s leaning into Q is not a good sign for the future.

Look, Parler isn’t as bad as Gab, but this kind of softball, uncritical approach to the platform is not helpful. WSJ should know better.

What a cheap, cynical about-face. The fact that candidates think this is something they can do to drum up voters and then change strategy is worrying.